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Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Throughout his long, respectable career, French auteur Eric Rohmer has been known for three qualities: a gentle touch, a simple style, and the ability to craft some of the most delectable dialogue ever to grace the screen. The magic of Rohmer's f...

Run Time: 1:43
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Eric Rohmer
Cast: Emmanuelle Chaulet, François-Eric Gendron, Anne-Laure Meury, ...
Evil Dead II, The

What do you get when you cross George Romero with The Three Stooges by way of the director of A Simple Plan and The Gift? Something offbeat, to be sure. Something grotesque, without a doubt. Something... groovy. Evil Dead II can be seen as ...

Run Time: 1:25
U.S. Release Date: 1987-03-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, ...
Full Metal Jacket

There be Spoilers! here.Over the space of a decade beginning with Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Apocalypse Now, no fewer than five influential directors made films about the Vietnam War. Four of those were clustered during the late 1980s: Oliv...

Run Time: 1:56
U.S. Release Date: 1987-07-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: War/Drama
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Matthew Modine, Arliss Howard, R. Lee Ermey, ...
Hard Ticket to Hawaii

I’m pretty sure that I once saw this movie on Cinemax’s “Fridays After Dark” program (back in the day when the pay channel was affectionately known as “Skin-a-max.”) Even if it was never featured, it might as well have been. Alongside ...

Run Time: 1:36
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-07-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Action
Director: Andy Sidaris
Cast: Ronn Moss, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, ...
Last Emperor, The

The careers of filmmakers David Lean and Bernardo Bertolucci overlapped for a short span (Lean’s best years coming prior to Bertolucci’s breakthrough) but, when the controversial Italian director released his celebrated epic The Last Emper...

Run Time: 2:43
U.S. Release Date: 1988-04-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sensuality, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: John Lone, Wu Junmei, Ric Young, ...
Lethal Weapon

It would be easy to lump Lethal Weapon into the vast scrapyard of mismatched buddy cop movies, but such a facile classification would do Richard Donner's 1987 thriller a disservice. This is one of the best of the subgenre, an action-packed movie t...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: 1987-03-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, ...
Living Daylights, The

I'll be among the first to admit that Timothy Dalton is a fine actor. But giving a solid performance has little to do with being a good James Bond, and, as accomplished as Dalton is, he's a failure as 007 in The Living Daylights (to give him ...

Run Time: 210
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: John Glen
Cast: Timothy Dalton, Caroline Bliss, Desmond Llewelyn, ...
Lost Boys, The

A few films from the 1980s have aged like fine wine. More, however, have turned to vinegar. The Lost Boys, despite its nostalgia-soaked reputation, falls into the latter category. A horror comedy that is neither as scary as it should be nor as fun...

Run Time: 1:37
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-10-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, ...
Nayagan

It’s a fair assessment that my overall unfamiliarity with Indian cinema may have amplified some of my criticisms of Mani Ratnam’s Nayagan (or, as it is also known, Nayakan). Two aspects that I found to be distracting – the oddly-placed mu...

Run Time: 2:25
U.S. Release Date: 1987-10-21
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Mani Ratnam
Cast: Kamal Haasan, Saranya, Delhi Ganesh, ...
Overboard

I don’t understand how certain films are selected for remakes. Take Overboard, for example. The original, a 1987 production starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and directed by Frank Marshall, was a mostly failed screwball comedy that worke...

Run Time: 1:52
U.S. Release Date: 2018-05-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rob Greeenberg
Cast: Anna Faris, Eugenio Derbez, Eva Longoria, ...